
Desert Burst
The SG Standard '61 was a Guitar Center and Musician's Friend exclusive model produced in 2014. It was the same as the 2014 Standard but without Min-E-Tune, the 12th fret banner inlay and the circuit board. It was essentially bringing back the 2013 Standard as a limited run, with the addition of coil splitting.
In 2019, a new model was introduced with the same name, effectively replacing the '61 Reissue. For that model, see the main page for the SG Standard.
Features[]
- $1,399 Street
- $1,629 Street (Cherry)
Body:
- Beveled, solid Honduran Mahogany body
- Grade A Mahogany (Translucent finishes)
- Deeper beveling
- Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish
Neck:
- 1-pc quartersawn Honduran Mahogany
- Set-in construction
- 3 degree angle
- Franklin Titebond 50 glue
- Joins body at 22nd fret
- 1961 Slim Taper D profile (.810/.900")
- Indian Rosewood fretboard
- Trapezoid inlays
- 12" radius
- Grade A Rosewood
Champagne
- Inlaid Mother of Pearl Gibson logo
- Inlaid Mother of Pearl crown
- "Made in U.S.A." stamp
- 17o headstock pitch
- 22 frets
- 24 9/16" scale
- TekToid self-lubricating nut
- Cut by Plek machine
- 1 11/16" nut width
Binding:
- Neck, single-ply
Electronics:
- Two '57 Classic Humbuckers
- AlNiCo II magnets
- ~7.9k Ohms D.C. resistance
- 3-way switch
- 2 Vol, 2 Tone
- Push/Pull coil split
- 500k non-linear

Silverburst
Hardware:
- Chrome Hardware
- TonePros "Kluson Deluxe" tuning machines
- 15:1 ratio
- Green Keystone buttons
- 5-ply "Angel Wing" pickguard
- Bell shaped truss rod cover
- 2-ply b/w
- Black Reflector knobs
- Zamak Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece
Finishes:
- Desert Burst
- Pelham Blue
- Champagne
- Silverburst
- Cherry (Guitar Center only)